Well, it's not build, because that's what it needs to do.
The Apache is a flying tank and the Tiger is a reconnaissance vehicle for a tank brigade. Actually.
An attack helicopter for mid-mountain ranges typical to Europe with its dence forests yet plenty of grass fields and small rivers needs to be like a motorcycle compared to main battle tank, if the Apache was a MBT.
It would be basically a flying RC plane of the largest RC class with short twin rotors spinning extremely fast while carrying only light ammunition and RPGs used from close distances in hit and run tactics based in the extreme 360 degree all axes maneuverability like this one..
A 5.56 Minigun, 4 Tornisters and 8 Bazookas, about.
Beside, which NATO General would create that Anarchist Pilote ready to ride that insect??
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The carry land of a helicopter depends on the same effect that an airplane uses and is different to a drone.
A helicopter is a rotating wing vehicle and actually has no rotor beside that small one at the tail.
The faster the air flows over the wing, the more the airstream pulls the wing up and with it all attached to that wing. Heavy goes slow but up, light goes fast and a lot up.
A small and very flat profile helicopter with two parallel rotating wingsets of four to six blades each rotating extremely fast will pull a lot, but also create some noise having the wings break the sound barrier...
To save weight the engine needs a multi gear box driving the wings, because the wing position changes direction and moving speed not the rotating speed of the wings.
Like a turbo charged motorcycle engine on two 6 speed gearboxes from also a motorcycle crating 6 times 6 gears and by that both leverage to get the wings rotating and transmission to achieve high constant rotation speed with low engine turns keeping fuel consumption low.
